Political Activism

This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the infamou...

The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well a...

The Armed Conflict Survey provides yearly data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced people for all major armed conflicts, alongside in-...

Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists This second volume in the Americans Who Tell t...

This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peaceb...

This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of literary, non-literary and cultural representations. T...

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending womens rights since 2011. However, th...

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...

This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the pre-emptive use of combat drones to kill terrorists is...

Calamitous weather is the least of their problems. Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black and former SEAL Mac Johnson have traveled to Israel to ...

Calamitous weather is the least of their problems. Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black and former SEAL Mac Johnson have traveled to Israel to ...

Volume II documents a nineteenth-century literary celebrity's decision to commit herself to the cause of woman's rights. The first volume of this s...

Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this ...

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Tru...

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech Our God Is Marching On, part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by H...

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings...

Disability rights advocates in the United Kingdom and the United States recently embraced new media technologies in unexpected and innovative ways....

This book analyses the process of the recruitment of foreign fighters from the Western Balkans, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, to ...

This book examines the role of social process and routinised violence in the use of underaged soldiers in the country now known as South Sudan duri...

This book offers an in-depth study of personal accounts of men and women who have at one time entered, participated in and ultimately exited the ne...

This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and cons...

Radicalisation, Extremism and Social Work Practice is the first book to explore cultural identity, acculturation and perceived discrimination of Mu...

The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups influence and networks spread globally...

Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon world-historic populations and vanguard party organizations...

The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained res...

The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this...

Days of the Fall takes the reader into the heart of the terrible wars in Syria and Iraq. The book combines frontline reporting with analysis of the...

Studying Muslim fundamentalisms, this book compares key movements, examining their commonalities, differences, and intricate relations, as well as ...

By investigating Sri Lanka as a case study, this book examines whether democracy, compared to authoritarianism, is conducive to post-war reconcilia...

Analysing intersections of race, class and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and anti-racism in the US. Considerin...

Revolutionary Studies explores the relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through a critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-...

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this que...

Vicente Lombardo Toledano was the founder of numerous labour union organisations in Mexico and Latin America between the 1920s and the 1960s. He wa...

This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every s...

Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migrati...

Transnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the Wor...

Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intell...

Proposing the novel concept of the literary NGO, this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their pr...

Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe explores the transmission of memories of 1970s protest movements in Italy, Germany, France and Gr...

Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to revitalize the disruptive, criti...

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out co...

Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out co...

This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the ...

Russia remains among the top-5 greenhouse gas emitters in the world and thus an important player in the field of international climate politics. To...